johnmatrix

Both will work. In both cases above you are reducing the size of the leg wing. The idea of that is to balance the fact that you are pulling your arms in to complete the pull, and you don't want a maxxed out leg wing to send you head low. There is no one correct method. Having said that I believe that key to getting a good deployment in a wingsuit is to be able to fly stable with your hand on the PC handle - for me that is in a slight arch and dialling back on the legwing, both hands on my BOC. If you can hold that position then it means you're not trying to rush the deployment (e.g. trying to dump it out before going unstable) and can get it out with both shoulders level with the horizon. Yes bringing your feet up at 90 degrees at the wrong moment could mean you kick the D bag, it's happened to me a couple of times, but usually when I was deploying in full flight and THEN kicking my feet up as it extracted. I fly mainly PF suits and deploy closer to how you've described above as the advice from the Squirrel coach. I'm not aware of any brand-specific methods. For you as a beginner I think just keep jumping and asking other wingsuiters and you'll settle into a technique that feels natural for you.

Many outdated suits still work fine. I think very rarely is the latest generation needed to do what one wants.

Awesome. Like it or not skydiving is risky business. It looks like he was with a few good men up there, I guess he went home for a cocktail and celebrated like he was born on the 4th of july.

Love my Vector 3.

No he is busy using it to go back to 2014 and buy my Vampire Race.

Sounds like you need another big suit then? I have a Vampire Race to sell if you're keen...

Yes but the re-sale value on big wingsuits is terrible unfortunately, especially if they are not the latest generation, so don't expect to get a lot.

Thanks - I have an older PF suit too and it has that strip, but haven't had issues with it.

OK, how did it get stuck? On clothing? Thanks everyone else for the responses.

I have been discussing wingsuit arm escape backup systems recently with others - cutaways and escape sleeves and was reflecting on that fact that I don't think I know anyone who has ever had an arm zipper jam. In over 400 wingsuit jumps I've never had a zipper failure resulting in being trapped in the suit. It's pinched my skin before but never caught on clothing. I have had one arm zipper break where the tab came off the zip, but the zipper still functions. I still think escape systems are an important backup, but just wondering if anyone has any experience or other stories with having to use them... ?

1989.

This is the lazy person's excuse for being too lazy to invest about 3-4 jump tickets worth of money into a snag free mount or cutaway system. And of course, being lazy, they are too lazy to test their own theory and try and break it off on the ground. All to justify not spending $100 on safety in a sport that costs thousands.

I agree. My DSLR setup is actually much more snag proof too than your standard sticky mount GoPro setup that I see commonly, and without a cutaway system.

Wow.

I hear about people using Senas wingsuiting from time to time but never tried it myself.

You can change the FOV of the camera, maybe the less-wide options might remove the part of the helmet that is visible at the side. I much prefer a top mount but when I started people were jumping side mounted CX100s and it was normal. They did have the Cookie box around them which was a bit snag resistant though.

Same thing happened to me. A lot of people fail that one. Apparently my DZ's record holder for failed AFF 4s failed it 34 times. But he eventually did it. My instructor told me I needed to relax and let my arms and legs sort of trail upwards while I was arching, like a shuttlecock, and that advice worked. Now here I am. Stick with it.

If you're a student pretty much any canopy that is OK for you at this stage will be fine for wingsuiting. This latest development of low-bulk canopies is marketed at people who downsized then got too stressed doing wingsuiting with the small canopies they were using and don't want to upsize their container to go back to a bigger more docile canopy. I do mainly wingsuit and tracking, and use a Sabre 2 for everything, loaded around 1.0. No issues but I won't be winning any canopy piloting comps.

Probably work... Sounds good! You know, you finally convinced me!) If it doesn't please let us know.

I haven't jumped one but it will probably work.

There are 1 or 2 over the last few years who have experimented with the dark arts up at Picton, but I suspect someone here will be able to chime in and help you.

Yep that's my experience, the narrower the lens the worse it gets. But that makes sense as it's similar to how when you zoom in a lens it magnifies any shakes. Just frustrating as the stabilisation on the AS50 is awesome. I will get some more testing done. I only ever download clips to watch them so can't help with live view I'm afraid.

OK thanks, yes I was wondering that. I have a top plate with 2 flat mounts on it and one seems a tiny bit loose so I've been using the other one but neither had issues with my old camera. I almost always shoot HD, I have tested the 4K mode though. I prefer the medium view angle to the wide one, but in the narrow FOV the stabilisation issues are much worse as one might expect. I'll upload some footage when I can to show.

What shooting and stabilisation modes are people using for this camera? I just got one and am finding that the footage is getting sort of micro-wobbles and shuddering with the stabilisation both on 'Active' and 'Standard' modes. The AS50 I used to use has really nice stabilisation with none of those sorts of effects.

I have to hand it to you, you're more optimistic about it than I am. I advise keeping your business knowledge to yourself and making the most of it but you might get some interest. I've been working in film and media for over 15 years now and the common thing through all that time has been the ease with which decent content can be made has increased, but the difficulty in earning a living wage for it has increased proportionally. You only have to look at things like handicam for tandems and the rise of GoPro. Before GoPro it was like you had a few people putting in effort, investing in gear and proper camera helmet to mine for genuine gold, now everyone's an alchemist just making it in their backyard. The more of it there is available the cheaper it gets, and now today it's become 'normal' for people to just ask for it to be shared for free.